Extracting character before point (.)

I have an character array (7879X1) and I want to extract character just before the point '.'For example my first 6 characters are given below and I want to pull just one character before point.

 KT2.5FDR
 CB6.456
 DFRG8.9B
 D6.GFDE8
 CBNGD9.FD
 CVDF8.BDF

So I should have a new cell array that consist of

2
6
8
6
9
8

How can I do this ? Thanks for your reply.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

This is easy using regexp:

>> C = {'KT2.5FDR';'CB6.456';'DFRG8.9B';'D6.GFDE8';'CBNGD9.FD';'CVDF8.BDF'};
>> D = regexp(C,'\d(?=\.)','match','once');
>> D{:}
ans = 2
ans = 6
ans = 8
ans = 6
ans = 9
ans = 8

These characters are easy to convert to numeric:

>> V = str2double(D)
V =
   2
   6
   8
   6
   9
   8

[Gokhan Kayan]

Oh it really helps me, thank you mate :)